Michael Voris

Gary Michael Voris, STB, is the founder and President of St. Michael's Media, a Traditionalist Catholic apostolate that produces on-demand video programs on the website, ChurchMilitant.com.

Biography
Michael Voris was born to a Dutch Protestant father who later converted to Catholicism and an Irish Catholic mother. He attended Notre Dame University and graduated with a communications degree in 1983. He was a television anchor, producer and reporter for various CBS affiliates in New York, Albany, Duluth, and Cheyenne, Wyoming between 1983 and 1986. In 1989, Voris became a reporter and producer for a Fox affiliate in Detroit. He won four Emmy Awards for production between 1992 and 1996. During his time as a news reporter, Voris lived a bisexual lifestyle, having numerous sexual relationships with both adult men and adult women. When his brother died of a heart attack in 2003 and his mother died of stomach cancer in 2004, Voris changed his lifestyle. He founded St. Michael's Media in 2006 in Ferndale, Michigan as a response to the Dan Brown novel and its film adaptation, The Da Vinci Code. His plan was to create a one-hour TV program to refute the image of the Catholic Church created by Dan Brown. He created other segments for what was originally called RealCatholicTV, which include "The Vortex", "The One True Faith", "Catholic Investigative Agency" (later renamed "Faith Based Investigations"), "The Armor of God", and "Where Did The Bible Come From?". However, Voris had to change the name of RealCatholicTV to Church Militant after the Archdiocese of Detroit forbade him from using the word "Catholic". During the 2016 presidential election, Voris supported Donald Trump due to Trump's pro-life views and his opposition to illegal immigration, which aligns with Church Militant's political and religious views.